Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess
Ann Aguirre
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Guess
Tell
Mind
More quotes by Ann Aguirre
There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.
Ann Aguirre
In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
Ann Aguirre
Love can make us do dreadful things.
Ann Aguirre
Most people can’t stomach silence it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
Ann Aguirre
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. I could've made you happy, dove. You did, I whispered
Ann Aguirre
Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
Ann Aguirre
But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.
Ann Aguirre
Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
Ann Aguirre
It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.
Ann Aguirre
I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
Ann Aguirre
For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
Ann Aguirre
Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.
Ann Aguirre
Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.
Ann Aguirre
You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.
Ann Aguirre
A divided heart offers a strange sensation.
Ann Aguirre
My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
Ann Aguirre
I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
Ann Aguirre
I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.
Ann Aguirre
You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.
Ann Aguirre
Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
Ann Aguirre